{"id":49475,"date":"2020-06-11T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1160356"},"modified":"2020-06-11T11:41:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T17:41:00","slug":"kelly-clarkson-files-for-divorce-from-brandon-blackstock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/kelly-clarkson-files-for-divorce-from-brandon-blackstock\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Clarkson Files for Divorce From Brandon Blackstock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"42.751773049645\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/202002\/rs_634x1024-200102164939-634.kelly-clarkson-brandon.ct.010220.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Brandon Blackstock, Kelly Clarkson, 2018 Billboard Music Awards\" alt=\"Brandon Blackstock, Kelly Clarkson, 2018 Billboard Music Awards\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Kevin Mazur\/BBMA18\/WireImage<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"25.240083507307\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kelly_clarkson\">Kelly Clarkson<\/a><\/strong> wants to put an end to her marriage.<\/p>\n<p>E! News can confirm&nbsp;<em>The Voice<\/em> coach has filed for divorce from husband <strong>Brandon Blackstock<\/strong> after almost seven years of marriage.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents obtained by <a href=\"https:\/\/theblast.com\/c\/kelly-clarkson-files-for-divorce-brandon-blackstock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Blast<\/a>, the <em>American Idol<\/em> winner quietly filed in Los Angeles last week.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The couple, who has two children together, have been married since 2013. Brandon also has two children from a previous marriage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many fans know their love story began at the Academy of Country Music Awards in 2006 when Kelly was rehearsing with <strong>Rascal Flatts<\/strong>. Lo and behold, Brandon served as the group&#8217;s tour manager at the time. The relationship, however, didn&#8217;t take off until a meeting six years later.&nbsp; Within 10 months of dating, Brandon proposed with Kelly announcing her engagement news in December 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;M ENGAGED!!!! I wanted y&#8217;all to know!!&#8221; she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kellyclarkson\/status\/280070401026043904\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote<\/a>. &#8220;Happiest night of my life last night! I am so lucky and am with the greatest man ever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"53.160377358491\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"4.622641509434\">\n<p>In October 2013, the couple exchanged vows in Tennessee. &#8220;Brandon&#8217;s totally the one,&#8221; the music superstar shared with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/entertainment\/celebs\/news\/a4125\/kelly-clarkson-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cosmopolitan<\/a><\/em>. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never been so happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34.163529411765\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"10.585882352941\">\n<p>Since then, the couple has supported each other personally and professionally leaving the divorce news shocking to many pop culture fans.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Kelly&#8217;s family appeared on her self-titled <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kellyclarkson\/status\/1253794441321525249\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">talk show<\/a> back in April to wish her a happy birthday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just now seeing this and I am bawling! They&#8217;re all so cute!&#8221; Kelly wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kellyclarkson\/status\/1253794441321525249\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> with video of the surprise. &#8220;I&#8217;ve had a bit of a rough week and this just turned it around.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"64.074367088608\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"19.715189873418\">\n<p>And throughout the marriage, the &#8220;Since U Been Gone&#8221; singer hasn&#8217;t been able to hide her passion for Brandon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never felt like, honesty, sexually attracted to anybody before him,&#8221; the Grammy winner&nbsp;revealed in a 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/891646\/kelly-clarkson-felt-asexual-until-she-met-husband-brandon-blackstock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview<\/a>. &#8220;And I&#8217;m not downing my exes. You know, everybody&#8217;s different. But there was something about him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I honestly thought I was asexual\u2014I&#8217;d never been turned on like that in my whole life,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I was like, &#8216;Oh that&#8217;s that feeling&#8230;OK! That&#8217;s what they were talking about in&nbsp;<em>Waiting to Exhale<\/em>. I just got it. I just didn&#8217;t have a clue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kelly has yet to publicly comment on the divorce news.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1160356\/kelly-clarkson-files-for-divorce-from-brandon-blackstock?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Mazur\/BBMA18\/WireImage Kelly Clarkson wants to put an end to her marriage. E! News can confirm&nbsp;The Voice coach has filed for divorce from husband Brandon Blackstock after almost seven years of marriage. According to court documents obtained by The Blast, the American Idol winner quietly filed in Los Angeles last week.&nbsp; The couple, who has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-23 16:28:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}